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HE VEGETABLE KINGDOM 
OR, THE STRUCTURE, CLASSIFICATION, AND USES OF PLANTS. 
M, 
Ellustratey upon the Natural System. 
BY JOHN LINDLEY, Pa D. ERS 
PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON, AND THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
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[SPECIMEN OF .THE WORK.1 
278 EUPHORBIACES. [Dicunous Exoozns, | BERaeRALRS.] DROSERACEJE. 433 
The roots of some are emetic. According to Deslongchamps, the powdered rootof E. | 
» pos. » 
Gerardiana vomits easily in doses of 18 or 20 grains. The root of Euphorbia Ipecacu- 
S eer Barton, to be equal to the true Ip ha, in some respects superior 5 | 
not unpleasant either in taste or smell E. Pithyusa in the Mediterranean is also | ORDER CL 2 i A ? 
esteemed. Euphorbia thymifolia is somewhat area S and astringent, and is prescribed | VIS PROMRRAG EE. Suni 
E P in d neice of Scd asa vermifuge. In the same way is employed | Droseracese, DC. Théorie, 214. (1819); Prodr. 1. 317. (1824); Endl. Gen. clxxxix.; Meisner, p.22. 
> hypericifolia, a pl of tropis merica, which is astringent and somewhat narcotic. | —Berber AR v y E 
Nevertheless E. balsamifera has no such qualities, and is einn heri GLAU mari P Er hig TRS pT velar yoni aga’ flowers, parietal placente, and 
ca is also employed as a condiment, but its acridity is by no means inconsiderable ; De eee £p Á Bp 0. ORE d^ RLY. : é 
they say it is used to adulterate Scammony. The sap of E. phosphorea shines with a licate herbaceous plants, often covered with glands. Leaves alternate, with stipu- 
Phosphorescent ight in a warm night in the ancient forests of Brazil. lary fringes and a circinale vernation, Peduncles, when young, circinate. Sepals 5, 
lit le genus Pedilanthus stands nearest to Euphorbia, and is not less potent in its qua- persistent equal, eith an eU E z t d 
P 3 P. tithymaloides has an acrid bitter milk ; a decoction of the dried shrub of it and Stamens distinet, withering, 
* padifolius (called Jewbush) is employed in syphilitic cases, and in amenorrhea ; the either equal in number to the 
Cot is emetic. Some of the trees again are among the most poisonous of all that tro- petals and alternate vith 
pr Countries produce. The juice of Excæcaria Agallocha, and even its smoke when them, or 2, 3, or 4 times as 
Bee affects the eyes with intolerable pain, as has been experienced occasionally many. Ovary single; styles 
| aes Sent ashore to cut fuel, who, according to Rumphius, having accidentally 3-5, either wholly distinct, or 
| a ed their eyes with the juice, became blinded, and ran about like distracted men, slightly connected.at the base, 
| —— sei Be Of them finally lost their sight. This juice is described as being thick, nau- bifid or branched. Ovules 
| dE and a violent purgative. The smoke of the burning branches is said te injure 00, parietal, or attached toa 
| has Sight. Agallochum or Aloes wood, an inflammable, fragrant, resinous substance, placenta at the base, anatro- 
een supposed to belong to this plant, but is really produced by quite a different pal. Capsule of 3 or 5 valves, 
i eee Aguitariacea. The famous Manchineel tree, Hipp Mancinella, is said which bear the placent 
| "This ^ Poisonous that persons have died from merely sleeping beneath its shade, either in the middle or at 
| 58 doubted, indeed, by Jacquin, who, however, admits its extremely venomous their base, and sometimes 
uties ; but it is by no means improbable that the story has some foundation in truth, turn in their edges so as to 
i Y form almost perfeet dissepi- 
ments. Seeds either naked 
or furnished with an aril. 
merdenarly if, as Ad. de Jussieu truly remarks, the volatile nature of the poisonous 
| Prneiple of these plants is considered, and the various degrees of susceptibility of such 
} dni s in the human constitution. The juice of Manchineel is pure white, and a Emb X " 
E ul d of it pi on the skin burns like fire, forming an ulcer often difficult. to mae M in the base 
| fluid, b e fruit, which is beautiful, and looks like an apple, is turgid with a similar 2 The ape fest ty 
oe ut in a milder form $ the burning it causes in the lips of those who bite it guards hese plants are gene- 
m Careless from the danger rally supposed to he nearly 
eating it, The juice of allied to Violetworts, from 
base crepitans is stated to which their cireinate ver- 
that of Exes quoe 
E l or 2, with fatal 
consequences Rock-roses (Cistaceze) are 
* _ Thej 
| Sapiumanenparinm is -epu tod also named as approaching 
| tioned E case is men- Sundews, and so are Turner- à 
dener by Tussac of a gar- ads, the parietal placentation of these Orders having 
he i led to the comparison. But if we regard the minute em- 
bryo and copious albumen of Sundews as the first point 
of importance in their structure, then they must be re- 
moved from immediate relation to all the Orders already 
“=e mentioned, and will fall into either the Berberal or 
Fig. CCCII. Erical Alliance. They will correspond with the former 
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| and dos emetic, ieu in the number of parts in their ovary not agreemg with that of the surrounding parts, al 
| adminis struent, Cautiously with Fumeworts in their parietal placentation ; on the other hand they will claim affinity 
ag eared, it is said to be with Ericals in their general appearance. Aldrovanda, a water plant, inhabiting the 
| dro medicine in obstinate ditches in the South of Europe, is remarkable for its whorled, cellular, shell-like leaves. 
thy Ad obstructions, 
à e o Sr At the Cape of Good Hope, in South America, North America, New Holland, China, 
given, ine of this Order is not, however, always as dangerous asin the instances just Europe, Madagascar, the East Indies, wherever there are marshes or morasses, these 
bottle Indi at of Siphonia elastica, a tree inhabiting Guayana and Brazil, yields the |plants are found. Drosophyllum lusitanicum: grows on the barren sands of Portugal. 
adia Rubber, which is known in Europe ; in reparing it the natives smear clay The common Droseras are rather acid, slightly acrid, and according to some, poison- 
ites n th repeated layers of the juiee, at due time drying it in' smoke. Aleu- |ous to cattle, The Drosera communis of Brazil is said by A. de St. Hilaire to be poisone 
Uoba, whose seeds will be mentioned presently, exudes a gummy substance which | ous to sheep. Drosera-lunata has v d leaves with glandular fringes, which close upon 
i 3 A. laccifera furnish Jac in Ceylon ; and the secre- | — 4 H ; "7 EE 
5 of ce i 2. furnishes gum Jac 1n Ceylon 5 i p E ipula. 1. its 
u the ERRERA x Draco and sanguiferum, become a similar red substance siis. Ki omes ti its en staeeons skin 
Among tho Mos Fig. CCOIIL.—Droseralongifolia. 1. a flos 
| crowd of emetie and purgative plants having more or less reputation | dicular section of a seed 
: 9.8 sectional view of it showing the placent; 3.8 
d o as to show the embryo. 
; 2. a perpendicular section of the oyary ; 3. a perper- 
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Fig. OXCLV.—Fruit of Hura crepitans, 
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